Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

1. Introduction: recent debates in maternal-fetal ethics: what are the ethical questions?
2. Overview: a framework for reproductive ethics

Part I. Generic Issues in Pregnancy:
3. Multi-cultural issues in maternal-fetal medicine
4. HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research
5. Genetic screening: should parents seek to perfect their children genetically?
6. Is there a duty not to reproduce?
7. Between fathers and fetuses
8. Restricting the freedom of pregnant women

Part II. Inception of Pregnancy: New Reproductive Technologies:
9. Ethical issues in embryo intervention and cloning
10. A case study in IVF: paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy
11. The ethics of secrecy in donor insemination

Part III. First and Second Trimester:
12. Ethical and social aspects of evaluating fetal screening
13. Prenatal counseling and images of disability
14. Models of motherhood in the abortion debate
15. Who owns embryonic and fetal tissue?
16. The fewer the better? Ethical issues in multiple gestation

Part IV. Third Trimester:
17. Caesarean section - who chooses, the woman or her doctor?
18. Compliance and non-compliance of pregnant women with doctors’ preferences

Part V. Neonatal Life:
19. Do new reproductive technologies benefit or harm children?
20. Are there lives not worth living? Severe handicap and the ‘worthless life’
21. Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates

Index.